*How America can free itself from guns (“What’s needed is a long-term national effort to change popular attitudes toward handgun ownership. And we need to insist on protecting the rights of Americans who do not want to be anywhere near guns.”)

*Tearing Down the Confederate Flag Is Just a Start (“So, sure, good riddance to Confederate flags across the country! And then let’s swivel to address the larger national disgrace: In 2015, so many children still don’t have an equal shot at life because of the color of their skin.”)

*The Righteous Logic of the Neo-Confederate Watershed (“…the ghost of the Confederacy and the almost countless public honors inscribed on the land are close to inoperable. They run so deep. They are so numerous and pervasive. Do we follow the righteous logic of recent days to its logical conclusion?”)

*Arlington’s choices akin to post-9/11, board chair says (Bizarre. Also, regarding the streetcar’s cancellation, a huge amount of blame certainly falls on the folks who launched a campaign of demagoguery and lies, but County Board supporters failed on multiple levels as well.)

I’d love to hear McCaskill spell out the specific issues on which Sanders differs from most other Democrats, and really the majority of the American people. Instead, she’d rather just dismiss him as a “socialist.” Not a strong argument.